Looking for a primary resource packed full of features that will give you more time to teach?

Teacher features designed just for you!

Through a wide variety of activity types and a range of new features we aim to help you make your classroom a happy and rewarding place to be - for you as well as the children!

We use a regular team of advisors to ensure that we're making content that is truly useful to you – and we listen to suggestions and comments from all teachers who are using Busy Things in their classrooms.

Home access options mean you can set homework and encourage parents to become involved with their children’s learning.

You can use the site just as it is or you can reshape it to fit in with the way you want your lessons to go.

It's easy: 5 clicks and you’re away!

Simply login, and then click to select a curriculum level; a second click takes you to a year setup; you choose a subject with a third click; a fourth click will take you to the field you are interested in. Here you will see the resources of different types you can use to support your teaching on the various topics in the field you’ve chosen – all will have been automatically customised for the children in your class.

If you want to keep any of the resources for later use you can store them in a Favourites area.

Personalise educational content to meet the needs of YOUR classroom

A particular feature we think you'll appreciate is the ability to switch the site into what we call ‘teacher mode’. This enables you to set up the site exactly as YOU want it: to choose which activities and tools children can access at a particular time, set their level of difficulty, keep a record of what the children have done and save or print out their work. More...

We have made it as easy as we can for you to create customised collections of resources to match the abilities and meet the needs of individual children or groups in your class and to keep them all fully engaged in what they are doing.

And there's a nifty button to lock children into a specific area to ensure they keep focussed on the job in hand!

The vast array of Busy Things content is fully mapped to curriculum learning objectives – the English, Scottish, and Australian versions are currently available. You can switch the site from one curriculum to another with just a couple of clicks.

"The key to Busy Things is that the children love it, the characters, sounds, humour etc that make the learning fun and engaging. The flexibility of the activities is really useful. I can use an autumn term phonics activity, then use the same activity but more advanced for the summer term."

Rebecca Johnson, Fernvale Primary School

Have fun with assignments!

Within the Assignments area teachers can assign worksheets, topic work and quizzes for pupils to complete in class or at home. By viewing the results teachers can quickly gain an understanding of how their class is progressing as well as review individual strengths and weaknesses!

Gather evidence of and create a record of children’s topic work

You can save and record children’s topic work for individual portfolios - activity descriptions, screen shots and curriculum information can all be exported as a PDF.

Why not print out children's topic work to make a fantastic classroom display!

Teachers tell us they particularly appreciate these Busy Things high spots

Inspire your pupils with a variety of technology!

You can access our full range of resources across any device in your classroom; Interactive whiteboard, laptop, desktop computer and tablets – Busy Things works on them all!

This adaptability makes Busy Things ideal for a variety of teaching scenarios; individual learning, small group work or a full front of class lesson.

Spark engagement with all styles of learner

As every child learns differently and at their own pace...you will find a wide variety of activities to challenge and advance knowledge and understanding in all types of learners.

From traditional structured games with a clear level progression to the more open-ended, experimental and thought provoking activities with no right or wrong answers.